When every app looks the same, none of them look like anything any more. Plus it’s just fugly with excessive whitespace, overly wide fonts and button sizes that seem to be optimized so my neighbor from across the street can easily understand the UI. It almost feels like UI parody to me.
Hot take: I miss apps looking the same. Consistency is good because it reduces cognitive load when switching between apps. No need to figure out how to navigate an app when it’s using a standard UI toolkit for the system it’s running on (or at least a popular one that other apps use).
Remember the Windows 95/98 days? You could set a system theme with custom colours, fonts, etc and it’d apply consistently across all apps. The majority of apps used the standard system UI components.
I don’t like every app being a special snowflake that doesn’t follow the platform’s UI design standards. Don’t even get me started on Electron apps where every app is custom-rendered…
I really intensely dislike the thing I think is Material You. It changed a bunch of OS colors on my phone to be kind of baby puke green because my background was an autumn photo of the park. Gross. Hate it. Can’t really disable it.
Not really a trend, but Material You and things that look similar. I don’t want the background of my app to be a colour with the vibe of brown.
When Websites have a random part where scrolling down scrolls to the left.
A persistent bar at the top that takes up what feels like half the screen with 100% zoom on a standard 1080x1920 monitor.
Sidebars that can’t be retracted, especially in desktop applications.
I love Material You! Why does everyone hate it? 😥
When every app looks the same, none of them look like anything any more. Plus it’s just fugly with excessive whitespace, overly wide fonts and button sizes that seem to be optimized so my neighbor from across the street can easily understand the UI. It almost feels like UI parody to me.
Hot take: I miss apps looking the same. Consistency is good because it reduces cognitive load when switching between apps. No need to figure out how to navigate an app when it’s using a standard UI toolkit for the system it’s running on (or at least a popular one that other apps use).
Remember the Windows 95/98 days? You could set a system theme with custom colours, fonts, etc and it’d apply consistently across all apps. The majority of apps used the standard system UI components.
I don’t like every app being a special snowflake that doesn’t follow the platform’s UI design standards. Don’t even get me started on Electron apps where every app is custom-rendered…
I really intensely dislike the thing I think is Material You. It changed a bunch of OS colors on my phone to be kind of baby puke green because my background was an autumn photo of the park. Gross. Hate it. Can’t really disable it.
I’m sure you can. At least on Samsung, I can change it pretty easily.
I did some searching and the only thing I found was an app that overrides it. I’m on a OnePlus 7
Why are you making me do math?
Why can’t you just say you’re on an 8?